As most people know, the Marxism mailing-list has been a resounding
success. Launched in May of 1998, it has tripled its initial subscriber
base. It has daily postings from the four corners of the earth, including
on a typical day Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, New Zealand, South Africa,
Austria,
Sam wrote:
Kant's ethics make extraordinary demands on
people. Kant's "kingdom of ends" is a utopia.
Which is the reason why Kant had to believe in the immortality of soul.
Another remainder of Christianity in Kant.
Yoshie
It is beyond me that, after the experiences of the past,
The following was posted some 6 months ago on another list. Much have
been made by some that I am anti-union because I am a capitalist. In
America, anyone who owns an IRA is technically a capitalist. At any
rate, as many have wisely suggested, on the internet, only one's ideas
should be
Louis wrote:
After 31 years of computer programming, you'd think I test everything
before releasing it to production.
Why should you, since Microsoft doesn't?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
Without getting into a thread as problematic as the prior one on race, I
would like to offer a small observation and a short question. I recently
interviewed for a variety of academic administrative positions up to and
including Provost at one institution. I do mention during the usual
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:05:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
:After 31 years of computer programming, you'd
Ann writes: My question to those on this list who survive in the belly of
the academic beast is this: should I ( or anyone ) mention their union
affiliation even if it is as benign and reactionary as some academic
"unions" (that are as conscious of their labor struggles as the AMA or the
ATP)?
This is from my friend in the Steel Union, Tom Lehman.
I don't disagree with him and we have often stood on the same side on many
labor issue.
My post was in reaction to criticism that alleged Chinese revisionism is
persecuting unionism in China. It is not even intellectually consistent,
because
I don't see the words "all past religion" in what Yoshie said. She seems to refer
specifically to immoratlity of the soul and Christianity. You then criticize this as
an implied effort to root out "all past religion" as regressive.
Marx counsels that God is alienated humanity, that man (sic)
Sid Shniad wrote:
The Chicago Tribune July
5, 1999
ACTIVISTS ON INTERNET RESHAPING RULES FOR GLOBAL ECONOMY
By R.C. Longworth, Tribune Staff Writer
They operate from cluttered offices and the conference rooms of
:)
Perhaps if there were a Beijing-Disney(land/world), things would be
different in the ABC/ESPN coverage? Nope. it is all about "Capital
Cities"(sic), isn't it? The more intelligent sportswriters (oxymoron?) did
admit that the PRC would have won 6-7 out of 10 times, if that many matches
what's inviolable about the human being?
Ian
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Sam wrote:
Kant's ethics
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Sam wrote:
Kant's ethics make extraordinary demands on
people. Kant's "kingdom of ends" is a utopia.
Which is the reason why Kant had to believe in the immortality of soul.
Another remainder of Christianity in Kant.
Yoshie
It is beyond me that, after the experiences of the past,
some in
Carrol Cox wrote:
Pioneers as it were in the disuse of footnotes were British scholars who
liked to pretend that only readers who knew the source without a footnote
were worthy readers. Footnotes were regarded as catering to the great
unwashed who were too ignorant to recognize a quotation
One may even get the idea that Jim Devine disagrees with my post.
Jim Devine wrote:
Given the way in which unions have been smashed during the last
quarter-century (in the US, but also elsewhere), I have to reply to this
message.
Henry C.K. Liu writes: The following was posted some 6
Charles Brown wrote:
Communists worked with Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights movement.
Marxists and leftists struggled as comrade in arms with liberation
theologists in recent national liberation struggles in Latin America.
Marx said "nothing human is alien to me". To the extent that
Does anyone know how the drive to organize Powell's Books in Portland
turned out?
If they've had an election, or voted for one, I haven't heard about it.
Gene Coyle
Ann Z. Li wrote:
( I will have two fillings please...my teeth got rattled when the CIA
destroyed my building using an old map)
I write:
This is an improvement over a number of years back when the US was
bombing the living sin out of Iraq and
I am in the midst of copyediting my new book, The Invention of
Capitalism, which Duke will publish in early 2000. In the rush to make
a deadline, I cannot locate 2 references. I am calling upon the
collective wisdom of the list to help me out.
The first comes in this paragraph:
The frequent
the union won.
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Does anyone know how the drive to organize Powell's Books in Portland
turned out?
If they've had an election, or voted for one, I haven't heard about it.
Gene Coyle
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Kant wrote in "What Is Enlightenment?":
'Argue as much as
you will, and about what you will, only obey!'
Yoshie
didn't Kant also write somewhere that government must suppress
criticism that does not show 'respect and devotion towards the
existing constitution'... Michael Hoover
Kant wrote
Michael Yates wrote:
Does anyone know of studies linking mental illness to earnings? I would
be most appeciative.
Don't know about that, but a friend of mine who's a psychologist says
that socioeconomic status race are important determinants of
diagnosis: the more upscale psychotic is
Last "60 Minutes" was priceless Cold War Jingoism and slander.
The piece started out saying that many children have been dying in Haiti and
elsewhere in the "Third World" and that the search for the cause has been
like a detective story and you, the viewer will be surprised at the source:
in a
Kant wrote in "What Is Enlightenment?":
'Argue as much as
you will, and about what you will, only obey!'
Yoshie
didn't Kant also write somewhere that government must suppress
criticism that does not show 'respect and devotion towards the
existing constitution'... Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover
TO comment on ABC Sports slanted coverage of the final game of the
Women's World Cup go to: http://www.abcsports.com/ask.asp
---
New York Times, Sunday July 11, 1999. Section Y, p. 23, col. 1.
TV Sports / Richard Sandomir
Just Who
I enjoyed the beginning of your review, Louis, and I'll enjoy the rest of
it after I see the movie you've gotten me interested in. I'm one of those
peole that like to be as ignorant as possible going into a movie, but a
great fan of details in yakking about it afterwards.
BTW, you've probably
At 02:39 PM 7/14/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Marx counsels that God is alienated humanity, that man (sic) makes
religion, religion does not make man. He also calls religion an
encyclopedic compendium and general theory of the human world, however in
an inverted form. In other words, he gives
I was in Oakland for a dentist's appt. Tuesday -- planned a dinner with
my son at 6:30 pm. Driving to meet my son and listening to the 6
O'clock news, I heard the KPFA fracas and we both went down there. A
lot of standing around. There were perhaps six or eight black and
whites in the
After 31 years of computer programming, you'd think I test everything
before releasing it to production. At any rate, there was a minor glitch
that has been fixed. Any other problems, please report them to me as David
Welch of Great Britain just did and which is now fixed.
Louis Proyect
I said that you, Yoshie, cannot avoid making value judgements about
Kant, not that we should avoid moral sentiments.
If one can't avoid moral sentiments in making political judgments, why
should one try? Is there any reason why one should banish moral sentiments
from reading, even if it
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